The book Defense West of Pierre Chiartano , is challenging from the title. The noun "defense" immediately evokes the September 11 2001, when all the tv went to the strip in the world, "U.S. under attack." Who can forget? Since then the U.S. has felt called to the defense. To protection against 'Islamist terrorist attack by Al Qaeda. Interpreted as a defense by the U.S. defense throughout the West and its values. And here the matter is complicated. In fact, most European countries, after having bestowed certificates of solidarity in September, immediately after coincident to distance themselves from the defensive line in the U.S. by Operation Enduring Freedom. And here we come to the second noun of the title, the West: its uniqueness is in question. It is not the problem of different methods and strategies but first of identity. And here comes the culture wars, to use a long-term in vogue in the U.S.. Culture wars that split the West and the U.S. too. Since the early seventies. What happened? Deconstructionist and postmodern theories have eroded the concept of truth. From a sociological-historical has carried out a revaluation of cultures "oppressed." The mixture of those philosophical and historiographical these revisions have led to the complaint-condemnation of Western culture that could not camp any "superiority" cultural and moral, and therefore saw its privileges considered a result of abuse. This has led to multiculturalism in the U.S., which is mixed with Marxist third worldism in Europe and ultimately resulted in the conventionalism and moral relativism in Europe and the United States. So we said, a terrorist war on the other side of the culture wars. There are two distinct but interrelated levels even in the biographies of the enemies of the West, starting with Bin Laden and suicide bombers against the Twin Towers. There are two floors, two levels of the survey Chiartano not escape but which it does indeed post. In this sense, his book is two-dimensional: he never loses sight of the international strategic space of the Exchequer and the other side of the underwater cultural conflict. Outlines scenarios or sometimes even conflict frames economic, energy, financial, military, on the the basis of studies think tank world and U.S. first, with evocative passages such as the connection between China, Iran and Venezuela's Chavez. Highlight the cultural dilemmas of the West, his dramatic erratic, is the self-forgetfulness. First of all Europe. The US-European disagreement on Enduring Freedom is likely to be a new treason of the clerics. Because the conflict is not about how. E 'for the substance. The West has produced and produces scientific and technological innovation and thus economic, financial, military. In support there is culture, Western humanism, the Western freedom. The great problem of our times is that the China and other parts of the Third World to acquire technological and economic capabilities. The problem is that they do this without acquiring an ethical-political values. But one thing is huge potential financial and even military personnel are therefore in the hands of other democratic powers which are available to dictatorships. Another thing is that biotechnology delicate instruments primarily from ethical point of view are disseminated to the responsible persons and things, and informed that they are used among people unaware. This is the cultural heart of the challenge today. But Europe has been little or no awareness. This is because, as I said earlier about the culture wars, Europe first repudiates the moral foundations and religious its very civilization, as has long highlighted the research of Jurgen Habermas. And 'This is the fruit of secularism of the West looks like Michael Novak in a recent note on secularism and its crisis in Europe after September 11. The paradox is therefore secularism. Western and even Arab. It is not able to meet in Cairo as in Paris, the fundamentalist resentment. Is not able to respond in terms of values \u200b\u200bbecause they do not understand the scale of the challenge. It is unable to respond because the military in political secularism is unable to mobilize sufficient moral energy to meet the costs of a tough response to Islamic fundamentalism. The issue, to ' bone is this. It 's true that the problems stem from the fact that we live in complex societies that still wants to be such. But this observation is reduced to chat if you do not see that this complexity is the product of a culture and may be said of a civilization and a spirit and that if you leave this basis that complexity is baseless and to some extent meaningless.
Chiartano Pierre, in his book, explains the totality of these issues, he catches the thread of Ariadne is essential to move through the maze of our time: the West is, first and fundamentally, political and economic freedom, but this is based freedom of conscience and thought which, in turn, has a basis in which the religious consciousness has its origins in Jewish-Christian monotheism. You can dig and articulate what you want but either you have this light or in darkness. West groping in the dark. Europe above all groping in the dark it did not know the rebirth and moral ideal that America has been called neo-conservative. That place can understand. We Europeans, however, no longer mindful of the origins of our civilization, having forgotten we no longer know what is our identity. We do not know why and who defend us. We are afraid of the bombs, of course. But we are not able to resist the power that morally and politically decides to make them explode. Better red than dead "said a sad slogan at the time of the Cold War. And today those who would be prepared to say that more Taliban killed? Then we risk being overwhelmed. But in fact risk the worst. We risk not being equal, we Europeans of the responsibility we have towards history and the world. Because today it is imperative to build a peaceful world. The West has the greatest responsibility in this task because it is the most advanced part of humanity and with more means. But if he forgets that his moral and spiritual superiority, then it is not able to pay those resposabilità. And then one day could meet the challenge of civilization not on the basis of its culture and its values, but one of fear and simple survival instinct. At that point the answer should be crisp. At that point the war from '45 that might be deemed impossible to go back to being a realistic assumption and I really believe this is the greatest risk and the new West dall'eclissi hidden guilt that may arise from this eclipse.
Massimo De Angelis , journalist, member of the Scientific Foundation Liberal
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